Life in Elizabethan England 5: Games. Drinking may be done in taverns, ale houses, or tippling houses.
Gambling is gaming (game-ing). Playing at dice is dicing. At the table A popular dice game is Hazard, played rather like Craps. The word for backgammon is tables. You can lose a good deal of money in a tabling den. An easy card game is Landsknecht. Other sport A whore house or stew is also a bawdy house or a leaping house or a shugging den. A drab is a woman of low character or a prostitute. A punk is a whore who may work in a stew. Note: Scottish money is worth about one-quarter of the English in the same denominations.
Filling the Time More Things To Do Still More Things To Do. Elizabethan England games, Popular Elizabethan sports Facts for kids. J The era was also the period of a well-organized and a very effective government.
And the Elizabethan era also saw the benefits of the new trans-Atlantic trade. But people of the Elizabethan era also had time for leisure, the sports and games. The games that the people of this era played are numerous. In fact games, the sports and entertainment was varied and helped people of the era relaxed a bit when work was over. The games that people played during this time were open for all no matter what their social standing may be. Games of Elizabethan era can be grouped into major categories. Card games during those times are popular to all especially to those who love to gamble and play the game of chance.
The card game 'One and Thirty' was considered by many as the ancestor of the modern Blackjack that people play now. Chess was the most popular board game during those times. Elizabethans of this era was also known for their prowess on various sporting games. Amuseuments and pastimes in Elizabethan England - The British Library. Some Elizabethan entertainments, such as theatre and football, are still popular today.
Others, such as animal-baiting, now seem shocking. Liza Picard takes a look at common 16th-century pastimes. Plays and play-going The great names of the Elizabethan stage – Shakespeare, Marlowe, Dekker, Ben Jonson – still retain their richness and power today. These plays could be bought to read at home, but it was much more fun to attend one of the several playhouses, such as the Globe, that had sprung up on the south bank of the river. Engraved view of London by C J Visscher showing the Globe The Globe Theatre in the foreground of Claes Visscher’s panorama of London, 1616. View images from this item (5) Animal baiting A modern audience would find this shocking, to put it mildly. There were probably many cock-pits scattered throughout London. View of London in Civitates Orbis Terrarum On the south bank of the river can be seen two rings, one for ‘Bowll bayting’ the other for ‘Beare bayting’.
Elizabethan Bear & Bull Baiting. Elizabethan Bear Baiting Bull baiting was a contest in which the bear was chained to a stake by one hind leg or by the neck and worried by dogs.
The whipping of a blinded bear was another variation of bear-baiting. Queen Elizabeth attended a famous baiting which was described by an Elizabethan chronicler called Robert Laneham as follows: "... it was a sport very pleasant to see, to see the bear, with his pink eyes, tearing after his enemies approach; the nimbleness and wait of the dog to take his advantage and the force and experience of the bear again to avoid his assaults: if he were bitten in one place how he would pinch in another to get free; that if he were taken once, then by what shift with biting, with clawing, with roaring, with tossing and tumbling he would work and wind himself from them; and when he was loose to shake his ears twice or thrice with the blood and the slaver hanging about his physiognomy.
" Elizabethan Games. Elizabethan Tournaments. Melee a pied Tournament - Teams of knights fighting on footMelee a cheval Tournament - Teams of knights fighting on horseback No pointed weapons should be used - they should be blunted.
And that tournaments had to be properly organised and only authorised combatants were allowed to carry arms. Elizabethan Tournaments - The LocationsThe Elizabethan Tournaments lasted over several days. As the tournaments became more organised, so did the event itself. Elizabethan Sports.